Word: peppers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pennsylvania is growing very rapidly, and in several directions it is becoming the most complete in America. The two principal donors to the library have been Dr. Alfred Stille, who presented a splendid collection of books, numbering 3000 volumes, and 5000 unbound volumes and pamphlets, and Dr. William Pepper, provost of the university, who more recently gave the greater portion of his own medical library; $15,000 in money has also been received, and one half of it expended in the erection of the new library building, while the other half is to be retained as the nucleus...
...most important features in connection with the recent meeting was a reception tendered by Dr. Pepper, provost of the University of Pennsylvania. The first part of the evening was devoted to discussing the subject of Semitic study in America. Among the speakers were Professors Toy and Lyon of Cambridge, Professor Green, of Princeton, and Professor Harper, of Yale. It is understood that the addresses are to be published in a pamphlet, and it is hoped that they may excite a yet greater interest in the important topic to which they relate...
...Pepper communicated the contents of a recent letter from Professor J. P. Peters, director of the exploring party now on its way from Philadelphia to Chaldea. The recent newspaper report of serious accident to the party is an exaggeration. The steamer conveying part of the expedition did, indeed, meet with misfortune off the coast of the island of Samos, but the American party suffered no loss. Professor Peters was not with them, but was in Constantinople, working to secure permission to excavate-a permission which the Turks are always loth to grant. Professor Peters felt sure, however, that he would...
...Persimmon. The last of these is in full fruit now, and the frost has rendered the golden fruit quite edible. The greenhouses are filled as full as they can well be with interesting plants, especially those of economic importance, such as the species which furnish coffee, tea, pepper, Peruvian bark, guava, and so on. It seems to be a pity that so many plants are crowded into so small a space, with no chance of properly displaying them, but the new foreman, Mr. Cameron, has shown a great deal of skill in arranging them. He, as well as his first...
THROWING THE HAMMER-14 entries. Harvard-H. B. Gibson, H. Pennypacker. Yale-A. B. Coxe, J. F. Hunt, G. W. Woodruff, G. Pinchot, T. F. Bayard, jr. Princeton-H. W. Cowan, H. H. Janeway. Columbia-C. E. Beckwith. U. of P.- G. Brinton, G. W. Pepper, A. J. Bowser...